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18 Mai 2021
La tenencia consuetudinaria se encuentra con las inversiones agrícolas responsables
Boletín de Perspectivas País N.1 / Mayo 2021
¿Cuántos buenos informes sobre la tierra pasan desapercibidos porque hay demasiada información entre la que elegir?
Teniendo esto en cuenta, Land Portal…
18 Mai 2021
La tenencia consuetudinaria se encuentra con las inversiones agrícolas responsables
Boletín de Perspectivas País N.1 / Mayo 2021
¿Cuántos buenos informes sobre la tierra pasan desapercibidos porque hay demasiada información entre la que elegir?
Teniendo esto en cuenta, Land Portal…
12 Mai 2021
As part of the launch of the Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator 2.0, the Land Portal spoke with Nathaniah Jacobs, Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, to hear more about the Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) project. The…
12 Mai 2021
As part of the launch of the Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator 2.0, the Land Portal spoke with Amaelle Seigneret, Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, to hear what’s new. The Navigator is meant to help governments, civil society and businesses…
15 Septembre 2020
Since last year, 35,000 people in Uganda’s Kiryandongo district were forced from their lands to make way for large-scale farming, including at gunpoint and by a sugar firm with international backing. Community members continue to be intimidated and tortured during a COVID-19 lockdown.
The sugar…
3 Mai 2019
By Chris Hufstader
After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.
Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.
“The company came and…
25 Février 2019
Agriculture represents a key sector in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially when it comes to lifting close to a billion people out of rural poverty. We can’t ignore that many millions of poor households continue to depend primarily on farming. Without investment, they…
18 Décembre 2018
By Ayesha Audu
Shifts toward commercialization of natural resources and land risk undermining the rights and interests of rural and agrarian communities. The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) provides a platform to amplify the voices of such communities and human rights…
28 Septembre 2018
In a saturated marketplace, food and beverage companies too often avoid addressing land rights issues.
There is no question that land is a fundamental asset for food and beverage companies growing and buying agricultural commodities in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. At the same time,…
This blog was written as a contribution to the Mekong Regional Land Forum taking place from June 21-23 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Philip Hirsch is a keynote speaker at this event.
By Philip Hirsch, Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney
It may seem strange…
A civil society perspective on engaging with the private sector
Towards SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Over the past decade, much of the land-based investment debate has focused on land grabbing and negative impacts of large-scale land acquisitions. This has painted an overly…